About Mia
Mia Tagano helps founders, executives, creatives, and speakers communicate with greater presence, clarity, and trust.
Her work blends storytelling, voice, embodied communication, and deep listening to help people speak in a way that feels grounded, human, and fully their own.
Before moving into coaching, Mia spent more than 35 years in professional theater, voice, performance, and teaching, earning an MFA in Acting along the way.
Two early experiences became especially foundational to her work. Her first professional role after graduate school involved performing nearly 200 shows in mask at Lincoln Center Theater, where she developed a deep understanding of physical presence, discipline, and communication beyond words.
Years later, she performed in Tantalus with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Denver Center for the Performing Arts—a 10-hour theatrical epic developed over nine months of rehearsal that premiered in Denver and toured the UK. The scale, rigor, and collaborative nature of that experience continue to inform her work today.
Her path has also included more than a decade of study in Angeles Arrien’s Four-Fold Way, ongoing study with Patrick O’Neill, years of work with ServiceSpace, meditation practice, peace walks and retreats around the world, and a continued exploration into how people communicate, relate, and make meaning.
Many people come to Mia believing they need to become more polished or confident speakers.
But often, what’s actually happening is that they’ve become disconnected from themselves while trying to communicate the “right” way.
They overthink.
Perform.
Try to prove something.
And somewhere in the process, their real voice disappears.
A large part of Mia’s work involves helping people discover the story that genuinely wants to be told and shaping it into a talk that feels clear, meaningful, and true to them.
For the past six years, she has coached members across multiple chapters of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, helping leaders shape keynotes, stories, and leadership communication rooted less in formulas and more in lived experience.
Mia helps people reconnect to what is already true in them and communicate it in a way others can genuinely feel.
Again and again, she has seen that audiences listen differently when someone speaks from a place of genuine connection.
Not because the speaker is perfect—
but because they feel real.